Listed below are the Second Rounders of the 10th Annual Launch Pad Feature Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Second Rounders:
| A Fearful Trill | Matt MacDonald |
| A Man Called White | Randy Hines |
| A Midsummer Night’s Play | Eric Johnson |
| A River in Africa | Bryan Gogarty |
| A THOUSAND DEAD HOGS | David Herzfeld |
| ABOVE US ONLY SKY | Nathan Patton |
| Absolved | Kyle Curry |
| Adrift | Aaron Edwards |
| After Jacob | Cerina Aragones |
| Almost Cuban | Trevor Bermudez |
| Ashes | Anaïsa Visser |
| Ashford Hall | Charlie Neubauer |
| Au Revoir | Floris Driebergen |
| August Beauty | Elisa Greenberg |
| Avery | BRYAN KELSEY |
| Bad Vibes | Cynthia Mersten |
| Beauty King | Annie Grace |
| Beaver Creek, 1982 | Ahren von Aschwege |
| Between Heaven & Here | Jon Lazar |
| Binary Protocol | JR Nelson |
| Bite Me | Phoebe Lapine |
| Black Market | David Daniels |
| Blind Spot | Alix Lerner |
| BLIND TIME | David Laserson |
| Blood Debt | Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn |
| Bloodhound | Danny Katz |
| Blue Winter | Madison Sean Flannery |
| Bobtail | Travis Carr |
| Buddy | Nicole Hill |
| Bury the Lede | Brianna Naderpour |
| Buying Drugs Near the White House | Arik Cohen |
| Candlelight | Benjamin Christopher |
| Carry That Weight | Joe Favalaro |
| Change Of Watch | Lewis Eastwood |
| Charcoal | Annie Wood |
| Chateau Sauvignon | David M. Night Maire, Adam T. Wolfe |
| Chrysalis | JD Volk |
| CLOSURE | RENSIL DSILVA |
| CO2 | Katherine O’Mahoney |
| CODSUCKER BAY | John Whitcher |
| Cold Hands | Adrian Gutierrez Martel |
| Come Back King | N. Fituri Scown |
| Cotton | Jim Rothman |
| Covetous | Jeffrey Yoon |
| Crabs In A Mother F*cking Bucket | Kari Mote |
| Cuffing Season | Jon Bershad |
| Dad Rock | Adam Boyer |
| Daisy | Theo Luoma |
| Dark City | Simon Bowler |
| Dark Crimes, Strange Times | Simon Oulouhojian |
| Delirium | Jon Addison |
| Denver | Joe Swafford |
| Diamonds Aren’t Forever | Colburn Tseng |
| DICK | Omeed Boghraty |
| Did You Say Blood? | James Yantko |
| Don’t Call Me Hero | Michael Elliott |
| Don’t Fear The Reaper | Anthony Mariani |
| Dragon Rider | Michael Tracy |
| Dude From Scratch | Robyn Paris, Megan Woodward |
| Dwelling | Alex Tranquada |
| Dybbuk | Joshua Knoller, Eric Grant |
| El Coco | Blake Robbins, Paul Barrett, Steve Murphy, Daniel Albino |
| Electric Road | M. K. Ching |
| Elephant Kiss | Kristi Barnett |
| ENEMIZATION | Felix Halim |
| Equity | Elizabeth Joyce |
| Everything in Its Right Place | Williy Lau |
| EXES-IN-LAW | Jessica Steele, Avery Steele |
| Finding McKinley | Madison Fyke |
| FIVE SWORDS UNDER HEAVEN | Logan Shaw |
| Flight to Freedom | Jeff Nowak |
| Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran | Farbod Ardebili |
| Gethsemane | Matheus Macedo |
| GIRL AT THE END OF THE WORLD | Dillon VanOort |
| Gladiatrix | Kenneth Alston |
| GLIMPSE | Richard Martin, Josh Calvert |
| Gold Diggers | Alex MacDonald |
| GOLDEN CITY | Michael Yuen |
| Goodbye Everybody | Benjamin Lewis |
| Gorgon | Richard Humphries |
| GRAHAM | Stephanie Hutchinson |
| GREEN BLOODS | Kevin Percival |
| Gristle | Heidi Hornbacher |
| Grrrls Drool | Katie Crone |
| Hadleyville | Zach Jansen |
| Hate The Living | Simon Littlejohn |
| HEIST/HEIST | Takeo Hori |
| Hellhound | Bobby Bridges |
| Hillbilly Bath | Lauren Kleeman |
| Home | Timothy Lahr |
| Home | Rudi O’Meara |
| HOPING | Eric Yang |
| How Rock and Roll Saved Tosca | Barry Leach |
| Human Element | Dariusz Kraszewski |
| Human Resources | Sean Malcolm |
| Igor and Frankie | Jim Picariello |
| In Here With Us | Mac Grant |
| Intrepid | Michael Langer |
| It’s Britney, Bitch | Cerina Aragones |
| Jane Air | Maria Carolan |
| Jewel | Tamara Steren |
| JUMPERS & CUTTERS | Jake Hulse |
| Kaleidoscopes | Laura Hunter Drago |
| KEEPER | R.L. Hooker |
| Kept | Kasper Kavalaris |
| KILL CASTRO | Adam Senior |
| Killer Road Trip | Evan Rindler, Jon Rizik |
| Knight’s Law | Eric Roberts |
| Ladylike | Taylor Coriell |
| Land Of The Free | Cody Beavers |
| Learning to Ride | Luisa Parnes |
| Like an Animal | David Page |
| LIKE, COMMENT, AND DIE! | Riley Fullerton |
| Lineage | Kathy Patterson |
| Little Dick | Zach Waggoner |
| LITTLE MAUDE | Tony Prescott |
| LOLA’S OUT THERE | Levi Buchanan, L. Kris Gowen |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| Lost Treasure | John McCarney |
| Love Less Likely | David Liban |
| Madame Butterfly’s Mad Jaunt | Barry Leach |
| Maslow | Jack Cherry |
| McCoy | Kat Bosworth |
| Meetings With Marty | Gregor Nicholas |
| MERCY | Todd Cahoon |
| Monster Scouts | Shaun Polakow |
| Moonscope | Unnamed |
| Mother Help | Catriona Toop, Georgie Oulton |
| Museum Piece | Brian Koukol |
| My Cousin’s Car | Andrew Goldmeier |
| Nat Cady’s Boys | Harris McCabe |
| NO GOOD DEED | Heather Farlinger |
| NO HEAVEN FOR BOY ANGELS | Andrew Shepherd |
| Noriko and the Dream-Eater | Mickey Cooper |
| Old Boys Club | Joshua Rebell |
| Old Guys | Mike Ryan |
| Oliver Cosmos | Kalena Ranoa, Jason Director |
| One Man Army | Andrew Rajan |
| ONE MORE TIME | Stu Selonick |
| OPERATION AJAX | Jake Hulse |
| Operation Babylift | John Mccarney |
| Out of the Woods | Lorna Green |
| Pact | Justin Boyd |
| Perfect Flower | Brent Delaney |
| Piledriver | Jordan Lazieh |
| Polly and Peter & Cybill | Justin Horowitz |
| PREACHER’S DAUGHTER; GIANT SLAYER | Gregory Bonds |
| Predator | Stephanie Moore |
| PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENCE | Laura Kirk |
| Qubit | Darren Moran |
| Rattle And Hum | Joe Favalaro |
| Reckoning | Vanessa Branch |
| Reformation | Stephen Morgan-MacKay, Stefan Alexander |
| REMEMBERING THE DAVID | Shirley Filardi Amitrano |
| RICH MAN GONE | john MONTGOMERY |
| Rigged | Alan J. Field |
| Rising Son | Tsubasa Yamaguchi |
| Ritchie Boy | Alan J. Field |
| Rosie and the Magical M.R.I Machine | Sammy Sultan |
| Roy G. Biv | Sebastian Davis |
| Runaway Wind | Michael Raymond |
| Sacajawea, A Mother’s Journey | Beverly Nault |
| Saint John | Kale Hills |
| Sanctuary | Patrick Regan |
| SATI | David Boito |
| Saturn Return | Mallory Sparks |
| Scavengers | Teddy Fischer |
| School Story | Jit Fong Oon |
| Scion | Paul Sheridan |
| Sea Legs | Ariel Mahler |
| See Jane Fight | Jill Morley |
| Serpent’s Tongue | Cameron Walker |
| Serpents in the Tall Grass | Jennie Chamberlain, Gabriel Lichstein |
| Shelley | Sean Price |
| SKIN | Urvashi Pathania |
| Skin | David Chang |
| Sleight of Hand | Annie Moorhead |
| Social Currency | Jack Coady |
| Soliloquy | Alexandre Wright, Charles Wright |
| Some Hood Named Freddie | Ari Dassa |
| Something About the Tide | Julia Morizawa |
| Songs Without Words | Hayley Tibbenham |
| SOUTH WIND COME | Ernestina Juarez |
| Speak English | Kieran Angelini |
| Star of the Morning | Ruben Jones |
| Stargazers | Joe Favalaro |
| Starhope | Abdulrahman Ugas |
| Stiff Griff | Alden Pernell |
| Still in Time | Greg Harvey |
| SYNCHRONICITY | Sharon Moore |
| Taking Tiger Mountain | Christian Maxwell, James Clark |
| Tape 22 | Christopher Ewing, Callie Bloem |
| Tear Us Apart | Geo Bradley |
| The Amends | Amanda Cole |
| The Bells | Charlie Magdaleno |
| The Box | Steve Parady |
| The Chicken Murders | Nadia Osman |
| The Cold Type | Zachary Huskins |
| The Culling | Jaime Chapin |
| The Dame | Everett Fox |
| The Devil and Dick Gregory | Sean Slater |
| The Eagle of Barwaq | Kiarash Anvari |
| The English Compound | Rebekah Wilkinson |
| The Flip and the Dead | Greg Harvey |
| The Fox | Marc Castaldo |
| The Greatest Joy | Lea Pascal |
| The Guns at Cowra | Vir Srinivas |
| THE HITMAN | Christopher Rubi |
| The Invisible Boy | Arun Narayanan |
| The Keeper | Michael Hubbard |
| The Lamb | John Ingle |
| THE LAND I WALK | Sam M. Duane |
| The Last Ones | C. D. ‘Pete’ Peterson |
| THE LAST PIRATE PRINCESS | Roy Bertram |
| The Lieutenant Nun | Matthew Bernstein |
| The Pepper | Christine Garver |
| The Pharmacist | Samsun Knight |
| THE PREY | Michael Miersen |
| The Proofreader | David Johnson |
| The Quest for Oz | Allen Wolf |
| The Rival Poet | Arlynda Boyer |
| The Secret Life of Balthasar | Michael Burnet |
| The Shimmers | Brendan Vogel, Ruth Sabin |
| The Slashelorette | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| The Songstress of Baghdad | Jessica Jiji |
| The South Bronx Entrepreneurship Club | Debra Devi |
| The Triple | Ginny Hogan |
| The Understudy | Dan Aho |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Theory of Colors | Shehrezad Maher |
| They Also Serve… | John F. McCarney |
| Things Escalate | Celine Leon |
| Time of Departure | Ron Thomson |
| Tinderella | Maria Carolan |
| Tiny Vessels | Saraphina Redalieu |
| Tivoli Gardens | K. Diakite, C. Darby |
| To Live and Die in Cuba | Arturo Corces |
| Trouble Will Find Me | Colin Moore |
| two egg | Scott Thompson |
| Underbelly | Alicia Louzoun-Heisler |
| Unformed | Mitchell Bogatz |
| UNnatural Talent | Jeff Perreca |
| Valiant | Charles Cordaro |
| Valley of the Suns | Matt MacDonald |
| Waiting for Laughter | Jordan Rowe |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| When the Whale Comes | Pamela Winfrey |
| Winning Season | Aaron Mobley |
| Wrong Place, Right Time | Bryan Kelsey |
| XY-113 | Ivan Bukta |
| Zharkov’s Masterpiece | Elizabeth Bartlette |
As a reminder if you participated in the additional add-on prize categories, you are still in contention for those prize(s) regardless of making the Second Round. Those winners are selected from the eligible pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners.
